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Бра́йан Уи́лсон О́лдисс, также — Олдис — английский писатель, получивший всемирную известность благодаря своим произведениям в жанре научной фантастики, в частности, трилогии «Гелликония» , а также НФ-критике. Лауреат двух наиболее значимых литературных премий в области фантастики — Хьюго за сборник рассказов Hothouse и Небьюла за повесть The Saliva Tree , написанную к столетию со дня рождения Герберта Уэллса. Wikipedia  

✵ 18. Август 1925 – 19. Август 2017
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„Идеи книги Стэплдона «Последние и первые люди» получают отражения в лучших текстах современной научной фантастики.“

предисловие к роману, 1962
Источник: Introduction by Brian W. Aldiss (1962) // Olaf Stapledon, Last and First Men, Penguin Books, 1963.
Источник: Станислав Лем. Фантастика и футурология. Книга 2 (От фантастической философии к историософической фантастике. Борхес и Стэплдон // IX. Утопия и футурология). 2-е изд. (1972) / пер. Е. П. Вайсброта, В. Борисова, 2004.

„Что касается меня, то, рассказывая о последствиях технического переворота, я стараюсь избегать крайностей. Я стремлюсь обходиться без старых примитивных штампов и изгоняю из своих рассказов законченных злодеев; в мире существует зло, но оно заключено в каждом из нас, и глупо надеяться на то, что мы радикально изменим мир к лучшему, отправив на тот свет нескольких негодяев.
Я стремлюсь также по возможности противиться очевидному соблазну переместить действие произведения на другие планеты. Когда Ефремов посылает своих героев в галактику, создается ощущение необъятной широты видения. И она действительно есть, эта широта. Но такое же ощущение можно создать и описывая обычную квартиру, причем читатели острее почувствуют неизведанное, если оно предстанет им в обычной квартире, а не среди звёзд.
Я пишу не столько о самой технике, сколько о последствиях, к которым она ведет. Хотя себя я могу охарактеризовать как оптимиста, большая часть мною написанного звучит пессимистически; нам, пережившим две мировые войны, труднее представить себе совершенный мир, чем это было Герберту Уэллсу, когда он писал в 1905 году «Современную утопию».
Я меньше всего хотел бы давать какие-то рекомендации другим писателям; для этого я слишком высоко ценю роль индивидуальности в творчестве. Наш век таит угрозу обезличивания, тем более нужно сохранить свою личность в искусстве. Писателю нечего позаимствовать у другого писателя; он может научиться у него только самостоятельности.“

Почему я стал фантастом...

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„Если мы утверждаем, что трудности, с которыми сталкиваются герои научно-фантастических произведений, не должны представлять собой исключительно материальные преграды и опасности, это значит, что в повествование должны быть включены не только категории физического противостояния, но также интеллектуального преодоления возникающих коллизий. Изменение физических параметров — это одно, осмысленный подход к ситуации — это другое. Поэтому столь оригинален замысел рассказакакого? Брайана Олдисса, в котором космонавты на борту ракеты, захваченной полем тяготения гигантской звезды, под воздействием гравитации испытывают регрессивную деформацию психики; здесь перед нами опять параллельные уровни трансформации, как и в приведённых выше произведениях Балларда, хотя, естественно, речь идёт о совершенно других преобразованиях.“

«Фантастика и футурология», книга 1 (Генерирующие структуры фантастики), 1970, 1972
перевод: С. Макарцев, В. Борисов, 2004
Станислав Лем

„Когда детство умирает, его трупы, называемые взрослыми, принимаются в общество — одно из более вежливых имён ада. Поэтому мы боимся детей, даже если любим их. Они показывают нам состояние нашего разложения.“

When childhood dies, its corpses are called adults and they enter society, one of the politer names of Hell. That is why we dread children, even if we love them. They show us the state of our decay.
1977
Источник: Manchester Guardian (31 December 1977)
Источник: Simpson’s Contemporary Quotations (1988) https://web.archive.org/web/20000709051930/http://www.bartleby.com/63/90/4790.html edited by James B. Simpson
Источник: Says Who?: A Guide To The Quotations Of The Century (1988) by Jonathon Green, p. 17 http://books.google.com/books?id=xUwOAQAAMAAJ&q=%22When+childhood+dies,+its+corpses+are+called+adults%22&dq=%22When+childhood+dies,+its+corpses+are+called+adults%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=KZO4U_WwFJSlqAaquoKoCg&ved=0CK0BEOgBMBk
Источник: The Concise Columbia Dictionary of Quotations (1989), p. 45 http://books.google.com/books?id=bs0J36MpieIC&pg=PA45&dq=%22When+childhood+dies,+its+corpses+are+called+adults%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=KZO4U_WwFJSlqAaquoKoCg&ved=0CEkQ6AEwBw#v=onepage&q=%22When%20childhood%20dies%2C%20its%20corpses%20are%20called%20adults%22&f=false

„Большая часть НФ написана о безумии, или о том, что сегодня считается таковым; постоянная игра в выяснение того, сколько может охватить человеческий разум, является частью её привлекательности.“

Most SF is about madness, or what is currently ruled to be madness; this is part of its attraction — it's always playing with how much the human mind can encompass.
1973
Источник: "In Conversation: Brian Aldiss & James Blish", Cypher (October 1973)
Источник: The Tale That Wags the God (1987) by James Blish

Брайан Олдисс: Цитаты на английском языке

“She had tried to love him.”

Brian W. Aldiss книга Super-Toys Last All Summer Long

Super-Toys Last All Summer Long (1969)

“An overcrowded world is the ideal place in which to be lonely.”

Brian W. Aldiss книга Super-Toys Last All Summer Long

Super-Toys Last All Summer Long (1969)

“AI, as they call it, is not going to be achieved by present-day machines."Artificial Intelligence" — that makes it sound simple, but what you're really talking about is artificial consciousness, AC.”

Locus interview (2000)
Контексте: My wife Margaret and I sold our house to Sir Roger Penrose and his wife... Talking to Roger, I found we both agreed that AI, as they call it, is not going to be achieved by present-day machines."Artificial Intelligence" — that makes it sound simple, but what you're really talking about is artificial consciousness, AC. And I don't think there's any way we can achieve artificial consciousness, at least until we've understood the sources of our own consciousness. I believe consciousness is a mind/body creation, literally interwoven with the body and the body's support systems. Well, you don't get that sort of thing with a robot.

“There is only the pattern; the pattern is all the universe, creator and created.”

“Old Hundredth” p. 162 (originally published in New Worlds Science Fiction #100, November 1960)
Short fiction, Who Can Replace a Man? (1965)
Контексте: When the first flint, the first shell, was shaped into a weapon, that action shaped man. As he molded and complicated his tools, so they molded and complicated him. He became the first scientific animal. And at last, via information theory and great computers, he gained knowledge of all his parts. He formed the Laws of Integration, which reveal all beings as part of a pattern and show them their part in the pattern. There is only the pattern; the pattern is all the universe, creator and created.

“The house was a rambling affair. It had few windows, and such as there were did not open, were unbreakable and admitted no light.”

Brian W. Aldiss книга Outside

Outside (1955)
Контексте: The house was a rambling affair. It had few windows, and such as there were did not open, were unbreakable and admitted no light. Darkness lay everywhere; illumination from an invisible source followed one's entry into a room — the black had to be entered before it faded. Every room was furnished, but with odd pieces that bore little relation to each other, as if there was no purpose for the room. Rooms equipped for purposeless beings have that air about them.

“When the first flint, the first shell, was shaped into a weapon, that action shaped man. As he molded and complicated his tools, so they molded and complicated him.”

“Old Hundredth” p. 162 (originally published in New Worlds Science Fiction #100, November 1960)
Short fiction, Who Can Replace a Man? (1965)
Контексте: When the first flint, the first shell, was shaped into a weapon, that action shaped man. As he molded and complicated his tools, so they molded and complicated him. He became the first scientific animal. And at last, via information theory and great computers, he gained knowledge of all his parts. He formed the Laws of Integration, which reveal all beings as part of a pattern and show them their part in the pattern. There is only the pattern; the pattern is all the universe, creator and created.

“Plato would have no actors in his republic, in case pretence devoured what was real. Plato's fears have proved well-grounded.”

The Glass Forest (1986)
Контексте: Plato would have no actors in his republic, in case pretence devoured what was real. Plato's fears have proved well-grounded. Actors, despised, almost outcast, until last century, have become something more than respectable. They, together with all those imitation actors, pop stars, TV celebrities, people who are famous for being famous, now receive adulation. They are the millionaires, the courtesans of our system. Solzhenitsyn, escaping to a West he had once admired, snarled at the meretricious falsity of what he found. We have built illusions round us and see no way out of the glass forest.

“Writers are vulnerable creatures like anyone else. For what do they have in reality? Not sandbags, not timbers. Just a flimsy reputation and a name.”

"Apéritif" in Bury My Heart at W.H. Smith's (1990)
Контексте: Writers must fortify themselves with pride and egotism as best they can. The process is analogous to using sandbags and loose timbers to protect a house against flood. Writers are vulnerable creatures like anyone else. For what do they have in reality? Not sandbags, not timbers. Just a flimsy reputation and a name.

“The ambition of the original Frank had not died; it had grown subtler. It had become a wish to sample everything.”

Let's Be Frank (1957)
Контексте: The ambition of the original Frank had not died; it had grown subtler. It had become a wish to sample everything. The more bodily habitations there were with which to sample, the more tantalizing the idea seemed: for many experiences, belonging only to one brief era, are never repeated, and may be gone before they are perceived and tasted.

“Frank's chromosome conquered everywhere. Peace was guaranteed.”

Let's Be Frank (1957)
Контексте: Frank's chromosome conquered everywhere. Peace was guaranteed.
By the end of another century's ruthless intermarriage, Russia and Asia were engulfed as thoroughly as Europe, and by the same loving methods. Billions of people: one consciousness.

“Science fiction has always seemed to me such a polyglot, an exotic mistress, a parasite, a kind of new language coined for the purpose of giving tongue to the demented twentieth century.”

The Glass Forest (1986)
Контексте: Here is what I wrote about SF. If it has a familiar ring, my publishers liked it well enough to make it into a postcard for publicity purposes. 'I love SF for its surrealist verve, its loony non-reality, its piercing truths, its wit, its masked melancholy, its nose for damnation, its bunkum, its contempt for home comforts, its slewed astronomy, its xenophilia, its hip, its classlessness, its mysterious machines, its gaudy backdrops, its tragic insecurity.'
Science fiction has always seemed to me such a polyglot, an exotic mistress, a parasite, a kind of new language coined for the purpose of giving tongue to the demented twentieth century.

“That's the difference between the two genres — and it's an almighty difference! And the truth is science fiction, because we all live in a world that's changed forever. It's never going to go back to what it was in the '60s or the '70s or the '30s, or whatever. It's changed.”

Locus interview (2000)
Контексте: Why do so many people dislike science fiction? The answer goes like this: You have to think of science fiction in contrast to its nearest competitor, heroic fantasy. In heroic fantasy, by and large, things are pretty stable, and then some terrible evil comes along that's going to take over the world. People have to fight it. In the end they win, of course, so the earth is restored to what it was. The status quo comes back. Science fiction's quite different. With science fiction, the world's in some sort of a state, and something awful happens. It may not be evil, it may be good or neutral, just an accident. Whatever they do in the novel, at the end the world is changed forever. That's the difference between the two genres — and it's an almighty difference! And the truth is science fiction, because we all live in a world that's changed forever. It's never going to go back to what it was in the '60s or the '70s or the '30s, or whatever. It's changed.

“We have built illusions round us and see no way out of the glass forest.”

The Glass Forest (1986)
Контексте: Plato would have no actors in his republic, in case pretence devoured what was real. Plato's fears have proved well-grounded. Actors, despised, almost outcast, until last century, have become something more than respectable. They, together with all those imitation actors, pop stars, TV celebrities, people who are famous for being famous, now receive adulation. They are the millionaires, the courtesans of our system. Solzhenitsyn, escaping to a West he had once admired, snarled at the meretricious falsity of what he found. We have built illusions round us and see no way out of the glass forest.

“It was extraordinary to be in two places at once, doing two different things — extraordinary, but not confusing.”

Let's Be Frank (1957)
Контексте: It was extraordinary to be in two places at once, doing two different things — extraordinary, but not confusing. He merely had two bodies which were as integrated as his two hands had been.

“They had the inexpressible benefit of their progenitor's one hundred and seventy-odd years' experience, and not only of his, but of all the other Franks. It was small wonder that, with few exceptions, whatever they did they prospered.”

Let's Be Frank (1957)
Контексте: These people, scattered all over the country, a few of them on the continent, were much like normal people. To outsiders, their relationship was not apparent; they certainly never revealed it; they never met. They became traders, captains of ships that traded with the Indies, soldiers, parliamentarians, agriculturists; some plunged into, some avoided, the constitutional struggles that dogged most of the seventeenth century. But they were all — male or female — Franks. They had the inexpressible benefit of their progenitor's one hundred and seventy-odd years' experience, and not only of his, but of all the other Franks. It was small wonder that, with few exceptions, whatever they did they prospered.

“We must find out what's wrong here. Either we are victims of some ghastly experiment — or we're all monsters!”

Brian W. Aldiss книга Outside

Outside (1955)
Контексте: "There's a way outside. We're — we've got to find out what we are." His voice rose to an hysterical pitch. He was shaking Calvin again. "We must find out what's wrong here. Either we are victims of some ghastly experiment — or we're all monsters!"

“These people, scattered all over the country, a few of them on the continent, were much like normal people. To outsiders, their relationship was not apparent; they certainly never revealed it; they never met.”

Let's Be Frank (1957)
Контексте: These people, scattered all over the country, a few of them on the continent, were much like normal people. To outsiders, their relationship was not apparent; they certainly never revealed it; they never met. They became traders, captains of ships that traded with the Indies, soldiers, parliamentarians, agriculturists; some plunged into, some avoided, the constitutional struggles that dogged most of the seventeenth century. But they were all — male or female — Franks. They had the inexpressible benefit of their progenitor's one hundred and seventy-odd years' experience, and not only of his, but of all the other Franks. It was small wonder that, with few exceptions, whatever they did they prospered.

“When childhood dies, its corpses are called adults and they enter society, one of the politer names of Hell. That is why we dread children, even if we love them. They show us the state of our decay.”

Quoted in the Manchester Guardian (31 December 1977), and Simpson’s Contemporary Quotations (1988) https://web.archive.org/web/20000709051930/http://www.bartleby.com/63/90/4790.html edited by James B. Simpson; Says Who?: A Guide To The Quotations Of The Century (1988) by Jonathon Green, p. 17 http://books.google.com/books?id=xUwOAQAAMAAJ&q=%22When+childhood+dies,+its+corpses+are+called+adults%22&dq=%22When+childhood+dies,+its+corpses+are+called+adults%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=KZO4U_WwFJSlqAaquoKoCg&ved=0CK0BEOgBMBk and The Concise Columbia Dictionary of Quotations (1989), p. 45 http://books.google.com/books?id=bs0J36MpieIC&pg=PA45&dq=%22When+childhood+dies,+its+corpses+are+called+adults%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=KZO4U_WwFJSlqAaquoKoCg&ved=0CEkQ6AEwBw#v=onepage&q=%22When%20childhood%20dies%2C%20its%20corpses%20are%20called%20adults%22&f=false

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